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20 April 2002 - CyberSafe Limited at InfoSecurity Europe
2002
CyberSafe Limited (www.cybersafe.ltd.uk), the Kerberos
solution provider, is exhibiting on stand 497 at InfoSecurity Europe 2002.
CyberSafe Limited (www.cybersafe.ltd.uk), the Kerberos
solution provider, is exhibiting on stand 497 at InfoSecurity Europe 2002.
The company will be showcasing its award winning TrustBroker™product
range which is based on the mature, standards-based Kerberos authentication
protocol, and will demonstrate how they can answer enterprise security
needs by making multi-platform common authentication a reality. The product
demonstration will show encryption and common authentication services
with widely used business applications such as telnet, ftp, Oracle and
Sybase.
Explains Tim Alsop, CyberSafe Limited technical director:
"Kerberos is the ideal strategic network security solution and bridges
the gap between heterogeneous operating systems and applications, providing
the 'plumbing' for common authentication services. At CyberSafe Limited
we are committed to offering the best technology based solution to meet
each customer's individual operating system, network and application authentication
needs."
About CyberSafe
Headquartered in the UK, the mission of CyberSafe Limited
is to deliver and support Kerberos based security solutions on a global
basis. As well as supporting, marketing and developing the TrustBroker™
. (also previously marketed as ActiveTRUST™.) products originally
developed by US based CyberSafe Corporation*, CyberSafe Limited provides
complementary solutions with, and promotes the appropriate use of, other
Kerberos protocol implementations available on the market today - both
Open Source, such as that provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), and the capabilities of the Kerberos protocol included in Microsoft
operating systems.
With this approach CyberSafe is able to offer the best technology based
solution to meet each customer's individual network and application authentication
needs.
About Kerberos
Kerberos, originally developed at MIT under its Project
Athena, provides secure authentication in networked environments, without
the threat of passwords being viewed while traveling across the network.
Additionally, the protocol includes data integrity to ensure messages
are not tampered with on the network and message privacy (encryption)
to ensure messages are not visible to eavesdroppers on the network. The
protocol is appropriately named after the three headed dog who, in Greek
mythology, guarded the entrance to Hades. Kerberos is designed to provide
strong authentication for client/server applications such as Oracle by
using secret-key cryptography.
A reference implementation of the protocol is available from MIT as Open
Source. The Kerberos protocol has also been implemented in some commercially
available products, such as those provided by CyberSafe, and Microsoft
has implemented the Kerberos protocol in its Windows 2000 and XP operating
systems. Some UNIX operating system vendors have also included support
for Kerberos in their operating systems and an increasing number of application
vendors are recognising the value that this protocol can have to improve
the authentication and privacy capabilities in their products.
Used to secure particularly vulnerable network communications like ftp,
telnet and other widely used Internet protocols, which normally transmit
user ID's and passwords in clear text, Kerberos provides the "plumbing"
for common authentication services. Its scalability means that it is ideal
for many different types of organisation - small or large.
* There is no financial
connection between CyberSafe Limited and CyberSafe Corporation
For further information, please contact:
Christina Relf, Kudos Marketing Ltd
DDI: +44 (0)1794 514441 Switchboard: +44 (0)1794 518171 Fax: 08700 515879
christina@kudos-marketing.co.uk
Tim Alsop, Technical Director, CyberSafe Limited
DDI: +44(0)1256 330596 Switchboard: +44 (0)700 4 KERBEROS / +44(0)700
4 537 237
Fax: +44 (0)207 681 3249
tim.alsop@cybersafe.ltd.uk
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